Acts:7

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drb @Acts:7:1 @Then the high priest said : Are these things so ? drb @Acts:7:2 @Who said : Ye men , brethren , and fathers , hear . The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham , when he was in Mesopotamia , before he dwelt in Charan . drb @Acts:7:3 @And said to him : Go forth out of thy country , and from thy kindred , and come into the land which I shall shew thee . drb @Acts:7:4 @Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans , and dwelt in Charan . And from thence , after his father was dead , he removed him into this land , wherein you now dwell . drb @Acts:7:5 @And he gave him no inheritance in it ; no , not the pace of a foot : but he promised to give it him in possession , and to his seed after him , when as yet he had no child . drb @Acts:7:6 @And God said to him : That his seed should sojourn in a strange country , and that they should bring them under bondage , and treat them evil four hundred years . drb @Acts:7:7 @And the nation which they shall serve will I judge , said the Lord ; and after these things they shall go out , and shall serve me in this place . drb @Acts:7:8 @And he gave him the covenant of circumcision , and so he begot Isaac , and circumcised him the eighth day ; and Isaac begot Jacob ; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs . drb @Acts:7:9 @And the patriarchs , through envy , sold Joseph into Egypt ; and God was with him , drb @Acts:7:10 @And delivered him out of all his tribulations : and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao , the king of Egypt ; and he appointed him governor over Egypt , and over all his house . drb @Acts:7:11 @Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan , and great tribulation ; and our fathers found no food . drb @Acts:7:12 @But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt , he sent our fathers first : drb @Acts:7:13 @And at the second time , Joseph was known by his brethren , and his kindred was made known to Pharao . drb @Acts:7:14 @And Joseph sending , called thither Jacob , his father , and all his kindred , seventy-five souls . drb @Acts:7:15 @So Jacob went down into Egypt ; and he died , and our fathers . drb @Acts:7:16 @And they were translated into Sichem , and were laid in the sepulchre , that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor , the son of Sichem drb @Acts:7:17 @And when the time of the promise drew near , which God had promised to Abraham , the people increased , and were multiplied in Egypt , drb @Acts:7:18 @Till another king arose in Egypt , who knew not Joseph . drb @Acts:7:19 @This same dealing craftily with our race , afflicted our fathers , that they should expose their children , to the end they might not be kept alive . drb @Acts:7:20 @At the same time was Moses born , and he was acceptable to God : who was nourished three months in his father 's house . drb @Acts:7:21 @And when he was exposed , Pharao 's daughter took him up , and nourished him for her own son . drb @Acts:7:22 @And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians ; and he was mighty in his words and in his deeds . drb @Acts:7:23 @And when he was full forty years old , it came into his heart to visit his brethren , the children of Israel . drb @Acts:7:24 @And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong , he defended him ; and striking the Egyptian , he avenged him who suffered the injury . drb @Acts:7:25 @And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them ; but they understood it not . drb @Acts:7:26 @And the day following , he shewed himself to them when they were at strife ; and would have reconciled them in peace , saying : Men , ye are brethren ; why hurt you one another ? drb @Acts:7:27 @But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away , saying : Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us ? drb @Acts:7:28 @What , wilt thou kill me , as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian ? drb @Acts:7:29 @And Moses fled upon this word , and was a stranger in the land of Madian , where he begot two sons . drb @Acts:7:30 @And when forty years were expired , there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sina , an angel in a flame of fire in a bush . drb @Acts:7:31 @And Moses seeing it , wondered at the sight . And as he drew near to view it , the voice of the Lord came unto him , saying : drb @Acts:7:32 @I am the God of thy fathers ; the God of Abraham , the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob . And Moses being terrified , durst not behold . drb @Acts:7:33 @And the Lord said to him : Loose the shoes from thy feet , for the place wherein thou standest , is holy ground . drb @Acts:7:34 @Seeing I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt , and I have heard their groaning , and am come down to deliver them . And now come , and I will send thee into Egypt . drb @Acts:7:35 @This Moses , whom they refused , saying : Who hath appointed thee prince and judge ? him God sent to be prince and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush . drb @Acts:7:36 @He brought them out , doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt , and in the Red Sea , and in the desert forty years . drb @Acts:7:37 @This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel : A prophet shall God raise up to you of your own brethren , as myself : him shall you hear . drb @Acts:7:38 @This is he that was in the church in the wilderness , with the angel who spoke to him on mount Sina , and with our fathers ; who received the words of life to give unto us . drb @Acts:7:39 @Whom our fathers would not obey ; but thrust him away , and in their hearts turned back into Egypt , drb @Acts:7:40 @Saying to Aaron : Make us gods to go before us . For as for this Moses , who brought us out of the land of Egypt , we know not what is become of him . drb @Acts:7:41 @And they made a calf in those days , and offered sacrifices to the idol , and rejoiced in the works of their own hands . drb @Acts:7:42 @And God turned , and gave them up to serve the host of heaven , as it is written in the books of the prophets : Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years , in the desert , O house of Israel ? drb @Acts:7:43 @And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch , and the star of your god Rempham , figures which you made to adore them . And I will carry you away beyond Babylon . drb @Acts:7:44 @The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert , as God ordained for them , speaking to Moses , that he should make it according to the form which he had seen . drb @Acts:7:45 @Which also our fathers receiving , brought in with Jesus , into the possession of the Gentiles , whom God drove out before the face of our fathers , unto the days of David . drb @Acts:7:46 @Who found grace before God , and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob . drb @Acts:7:47 @But Solomon built him a house . drb @Acts:7:48 @Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands , as the prophet saith : drb @Acts:7:49 @Heaven is my throne , and the earth my footstool . What house will you build me ? saith the Lord ; or what is the place of my resting ? drb @Acts:7:50 @Hath not my hand made all these things ? drb @Acts:7:51 @You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears , you always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did , so do you also . drb @Acts:7:52 @Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One ; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers : drb @Acts:7:53 @Who have received the law by the disposition of angels , and have not kept it . drb @Acts:7:54 @Now hearing these things , they were cut to the heart , and they gnashed with their teeth at him . drb @Acts:7:55 @But he , being full of the Holy Ghost , looking up steadfastly to heaven , saw the glory of God , and Jesus standing on the right hand of God . And he said : Behold , I see the heavens opened , and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God . drb @Acts:7:56 @And they crying out with a loud voice , stopped their ears , and with one accord ran violently upon him . drb @Acts:7:57 @And casting him forth without the city , they stoned him ; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man , whose name was Saul . drb @Acts:7:58 @And they stoned Stephen , invoking , and saying : Lord Jesus , receive my spirit . drb @Acts:7:59 @And falling on his knees , he cried with a loud voice , saying : Lord , lay not this sin to their charge . And when he had said this , he fell asleep in the Lord . And Saul was consenting to his death .

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